Locust Bean And Guar Gums

Locust Bean And Guar Gums appears in 119 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.

What the data can answer

Locust Bean And Guar Gums appears in 119 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.

119
catalogued products
#2,786
usage rank of 247,206
29
named brands represented
65%
average depth down ingredient lists

Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.

High-volume listing for Locust Bean And Guar Gums - usage rank #2,786

Usage rank
#2,786
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 119 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
65%
Mean relative depth 65% across 119 parsed labels, slot 11.2 on average. Locust Bean And Guar Gums tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 19.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Locust Bean And Guar Gums spans 29 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with Artichoke & garlic gourmet spreadable cheese, artichoke & garlic; Authentic pub cheese; Better than cream cheese plain when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

29 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 119 of 119 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.

Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.

What else is usually in the same product as Locust Bean And Guar Gums

Across the 119 products on this site that list Locust Bean And Guar Gums, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set.

Caramel Coloring: +0.2ppCaramel Coloring+0.2ppRed 40: -0.4ppRed 40-0.4ppSodium Nitrite: +1.8ppSodium Nitrite+1.8ppCarrageenan: -0.3ppCarrageenan-0.3ppYellow 5: -0.6ppYellow 5-0.6pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Locust Bean And Guar Gums products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
0.2pp
Red 40
-0.4pp
Sodium Nitrite
1.8pp
Carrageenan
-0.3pp
Yellow 5
-0.6pp
Additive Shared products Share of Locust Bean And Guar Gums products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 7 5.9% 5.7%
Red 40 6 5% 5.4%
Sodium Nitrite 5 4.2% 2.4%
Carrageenan 5 4.2% 4.5%
Yellow 5 5 4.2% 4.8%

Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.

Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Locust Bean And Guar Gums

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 7580859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Locust Bean And Guar Gums
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Locust Bean And Guar Gums beside “1 Mustard Seed”

High-volume peers for Locust Bean And Guar Gums: 119 products, mean screening score 95.5/100. Nearest count peers include “1 Mustard Seed”, “Angus Beef”, “Apple Pieces”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Using the Locust Bean And Guar Gums evidence

119 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Locust Bean And Guar Gums are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Locust Bean And Guar Gums and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Locust Bean And Guar Gums — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Locust Bean And Guar Gums?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Locust Bean And Guar Gums, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,786 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Locust Bean And Guar Gums?

Locust Bean And Guar Gums ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,786 of 247,206), appearing in 119 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Locust Bean And Guar Gums so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Locust Bean And Guar Gums appears in 119 products (#2,786 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Locust Bean And Guar Gums). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.